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Guest post: Michael B. Rapps on WGI Heavy Minerals Inc (TSE:WG)

Posted in About, Activist Investors, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Stocks, tagged , , on April 16, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Michael B. Rapps of Geosam Capital Inc has provided a guest post on WGI Heavy Minerals Inc (TSE:WG). Michael recently joined Geosam Capital Inc., a Toronto-based private equity firm that focuses on small-capitalization activist investments and distressed debt investments. Prior to joining Geosam Capital Inc., he practiced law for 3 1/2 years at Davies Ward Phillips [...]

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Marty Whitman on value and corporate governance

Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged , , , , on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The superb Manual of Ideas blog has an article by Ravi Nagarajan, Marty Whitman Reflects on Value Investing and Net-Nets, on legendary value investor Marty Whitman’s conversation with Columbia Professor Bruce Greenwald at the Columbia Investment Management Conference in New York. I have in the past discussed Marty Whitman’s adjustments to Graham’s net net formula, which I [...]

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Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index results

Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged , , , , on February 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Jon Heller of the superb Cheap Stocks, one of the inspirations for this site, has published the results of his two year net net index experiment in Winding Down The Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index; Outperforms Russell Microcap by 1371 bps, S&P 500 by 2537 bps. The “CS 21 Net/Net Index” was “the first [...]

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Net current asset value and net net working capital back-test refined

Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged , , , , , , on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Jae Jun at Old School Value has updated his great post back-testing the performance of net current asset value (NCAV) against “net net working capital” (NNWC) by refining the back-test (see NCAV NNWC Backtest Refined). His new back-test increases the rebalancing period to 6 months from 4 weeks, excludes companies with daily volume below 30,000 shares, and introduces the [...]

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Back-testing the performance of net current asset value against net net working value

Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged , , , , , , , on February 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Jae Jun at Old School Value has a great post, NCAV NNWC Screen Strategy Backtest, comparing the performance of net current asset value stocks (NCAV) and “net net working capital” (NNWC) stocks over the last three years. To arrive at NNWC, Jae Jun discounts the current asset value of stocks in line with Graham’s liquidation value [...]

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Walking the talk: Applying back-tested investment strategies in practice

Posted in About, Behavioral economics, Contrarian investment, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Quantitative investment, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, has an interesting post on his blog Musings on Markets, Transaction costs and beating the market. Damodaran’s thesis is that transaction costs – broadly defined to include brokerage commissions, spread and the “price impact” of trading (which I believe is an important issue [...]

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Guest post update: Farukh Farooqi, Marquis Research on Silicon Storage Technology Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI)

Posted in Activist Investors, Net Net Stocks, Silicon Storage Technology Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI), Stocks, tagged , , on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Farukh Farooqi, a long-time supporter of Greenbackd and the founder of Marquis Research, a special situations research and advisory firm (for more on Farukh and his methodology, see The Deal in the article “Scavenger Hunter”) provided a guest post on Silicon Storage Technology, Inc (NASDAQ:SSTI) a few weeks back. Farukh wrote: Activist-Driven Situation Summary: Silicon Storage Tech. (SSTI; [...]

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Japanese liquidation value: 1932 US redux

Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged , , , , , on February 4, 2010 | 14 Comments »

Zero Hedge has an article Uncovering Liquidation Value… In Japan? discussing SocGen’s Dylan Grice’s Are Japanese equities worth more dead than alive. The title is a nod to Benjamin Graham’s landmark 1932 Forbes article, Inflated Treasuries and Deflated Stockholders, where he discussed the large number of companies in the US then trading at a discount to liquidation [...]

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October Net-Net follow-up

Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

In October I introduced a “monthly” net-net watch list based on the GuruFocus Benjamin Graham Net Current Asset Value Screener (subscription required). I haven’t updated it on a monthly basis, so now it’s a quarterly net-net watch list. July Net-Net Screen I was prompted to introduce the October net-net watch list because of the performance of a watch [...]

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Guest Post: Daniel Rudewicz, Furlong Samex LLC on Paragon Technologies (PGNT.PK)

Posted in Activist Investors, Paragon Technologies (PGNT.PK), Stocks, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Daniel Rudewicz, the managing member of Furlong Samex LLC, has provided a guest post today on Paragon Technologies (PGNT.PK). Furlong Samex is a deep value investment partnership based on the principles of Benjamin Graham. Daniel can be reached at rudewicz [at] furlongsamex [dot] com. Anyone Need a (Sanborn) Map? In his 1960 partnership letter, Warren Buffett [...]

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